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Never? You are not alone. None of the maintenance solutions I use includes functionality to rebuild a heap, and that includes Maintanance Plans and Ola Hallengren's maintenance solution.
''So why would you want to rebuild a heap, when it isn't sorted in the first place?'', you ask. The answer is to get rid of Forwarding Pointers, and these can ...

I have been working on new features for the Rules-Driven Maintenance Solution, including per-index maintenance preferences and more selective processing for statistics. SQL Server stats is a topic I knew about at a high level, but lately I have had to take a deeper dive into the DMVs and system views and wrap my head around things like ...

The SQL Server support team just announced the release of a backup simulator. Many 3rd party utilities that do backup like IBM Tivoli, Symantec BackupExec, Quest Litespeed, Redgate SQL Backup etc. use the sqlvdi.dll to communicate to SQL Server and this allows you to simulate that activity. So if you want to test how your system reacts or more ...

Ola has a set of stored procedures to do maint operations, see http://ola.hallengren.com/. Ola has now updated them to support exclusions or inclusions of tables, indexes or even whole schemas from index rebuild/reorg. Check out http://ola.hallengren.com/Documentation.html#SelectingIndexes for info on how to define exclusions and ...

As many of you heard ( see Kevin’s post http://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2009/05/06/microsoft-marketing-throws-sql-server-under-the-bus.aspx ) MS marketing released a comment last week that indicated SQL Server couldn’t handle the load for the Win 7 downloads. But it appears that reality sets in and we get a much different story ...